Example sentences for: insurmountable

How can you use “insurmountable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But the almost insurmountable practical considerations reared up before me, and I quickly abandoned the idea.

  • This lack of language skills in turn became an insurmountable barrier to learning how to fly.

  • Recently, data obtained from genome sequencing projects have made it clear that bacteria exchange genetic information by means of transducing bacteriophages, conjugative plasmids, and natural transformation [ 18 ] at a much higher rate than previously thought [ 19 ] . There seem to be few insurmountable barriers to interspecies gene transfer, with transfers being documented between such diverse organisms as archea and eubacteria [ 20 ] . Synechococcus sp. [ 21 ] and some P. stutzeri strains [ 22 ] are two examples of the many bacterial species known to undergo natural transformation.

  • Thomas Jefferson, a pessimist, maintained that blacks and whites "can never live in a state of equal freedom under the same Government, so insurmountable are the barriers which nature, habit, and opinion have established between them."

  • Suppose it's 2000, the candidates are Gore and Bush, and Gore has a slight but not insurmountable lead in the polls.


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